INTERPOL is the world’s largest international police organization, with 190 member countries. Our role is to enable police around the world to work together to make the world a safer place. Our high-tech infrastructure of technical and operational support helps meet the growing challenges of fighting crime in the 21st century.

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Our global police communications channels and internationally recognized alert systems allow police around the world to share data instantly and securely. A 24-hour contact point and specialized teams provide targeted support to serious crime or disaster incidents.

General Secretariat

A global presence

Recognizing the value of bringing together police within a region to share experiences and tackle common crime issues, the Secretariat has seven regional offices:

Argentina (Buenos Aires)

Cameroon (Yaoundé)

Côte d’Ivoire (Abidjan)

El Salvador (San Salvador)

Kenya (Nairobi)

Thailand (Bangkok)

Zimbabwe (Harare)

Our presence on the international stage is strengthened through liaison offices at the United Nations in New York and at the European Union in Brussels. These enable us to work closely with those UN and EU departments and entities that share our mission of preventing and combating transnational crime, and develop joint efforts to enhance regional and global security.

In order to further strengthen our physical presence across the world, we will be opening the ﻿INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in 2014 in Singapore. The activities to be centred at the IGCI will revolve around research and development in the identification of crimes and criminals, innovation-based capacity building, and provision of 24/7 operational police support.

International personnel

Reflecting the diversity of our membership, around 100 different nationalities are currently represented at the Secretariat and its regional offices, many of them law enforcement personnel seconded or loaned from their national administration. Having these connections in all regions of the world ensures the Organization can provide enhanced support wherever it may be needed.

Staff work in any of the Organization's four official languages: Arabic, English, French and Spanish and have developed new tools, databases and services to help member countries fight a wide range of criminal activities and to encourage communication and cooperation between National Central Bureaus.